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.claude/skills/cairn-loop-reconcile/SKILL.md

cairn-loop-reconcile is a skill for Claude Code from cairn-framework/cairn. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,446 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plan-reconciliation procedure updates a Cairn development plan after one unit of work has been checked. Cairn is a workflow for managing research-based changes across multiple coding sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after verification in cairn-dev loop mode to amend affected research, todos, specifications, decisions, and dependent units. It prepares edits for the Land step but does not select the next unit or commit changes.
Why use it?
Evidence from completed work can make later tasks, specifications, or decisions outdated. This procedure records those effects so the plan committed to the main branch remains accurate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is cairn-framework/cairn's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on cairn itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything cairn configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cairn-framework/cairn. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cairn-framework/cairn/main/.claude/skills/cairn-loop-reconcile/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cairn-framework/cairn

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,446 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.01446
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00145

Measured 7d ago against content hash e597a037db7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cairn-loop-reconcile scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/cairn-loop-reconcile/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reconcile the remaining plan

Loaded by cairn-dev loop mode after Verify and before Land. Inputs: the selected unit (slug or finding code), its resolved node, its validated todo body when it has one, the proof Verify produced, and the bound $CAIRN.

A campaign runs across many fresh sessions with no memory between them. The plan the next session reads is whatever this commit leaves on main. Much of the work is research based, so a landed unit routinely invalidates a later one. Recording that is part of the unit, not paperwork after it.

Declared exits, exactly one, as the last line you return to loop mode:

  • RECONCILED: the plan on disk matches this unit's evidence, and the edits sit in the worktree for Land to stage.
  • LOOP HALTED: reconciling needs a maintainer ruling this session cannot make.

Provenance only. This recipe never selects the next unit, never repeats, never retries, never interprets a terminal token, and never commits or pushes. Land owns the commit; the invoking user or harness owns repetition (dec.no-orchestrator, dec.loop-command-harness-model).

Authoring paths

Every obligation below has one path. $CAIRN research, $CAIRN todos, and $CAIRN decisions are read-only queries, not creation verbs.

Obligation Path
Observation and result hand-author meta/research/<slug>.md (id res.<slug>, nodes: required)
A rule changed $CAIRN decision new <slug> --node <id>, then author the body
Status change $CAIRN todo set <slug> <open|in_progress|done|blocked>
New prerequisite $CAIRN todo new <slug> --node <id>
Todo body, Depends on, umbrella Waves, change spec direct file edit

1. Record the observation

If this unit produced evidence (a measurement, a rejected option, a behaviour the plan did not predict), write it as a Research artefact naming the node it constrains. If it changed a rule rather than only informing one, write a Decision as well and state retain, revise, or remove for the hypothesis the unit tested.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 124 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A e597a037db7f

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cairn-loop-reconcile is a skill published in the GitHub repository cairn-framework/cairn (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,446 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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